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Jake Weatherald and Jordan Silk rescued Tasmania after they lost three early wickets Queensland v Tasmania | Sheffield Shield | Day 1 The man Jake Weatherald hopes to partner at the top of the Australian order did him a big favour on day one of their Sheffield Shield season opener in Brisbane. Test and Queensland opener Usman Khawaja dropped Weatherald at first slip off the bowling of Jack Wildermuth when the Tasmanian had made just three on Saturday at Allan Border field. Weatherald took full advantage of his life, hitting two boundaries in the same over. The in-form Tasmanian opener…
NEW LEADER Shubman Gill has led teams in List A cricket only six times so far © BCCI Shubman Gill has been named India’s new ODI captain and will take over the reins from Rohit Sharma for the forthcoming three-match ODI series in Australia. This will be Gill’s first series as captain of the ODI side, having previously captained the Test and T20I sides. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has also announced the squad for the five-match T20I series which follows the ODIs. Despite Rohit being replaced as captain, he has been named in the ODI…
AFGHANISTAN VS BANGLADESH IN UAE, 2025 Jaker Ali has looked a pale shadow of himself in recent times © Getty Bangladesh head coach Phil Simmons has backed out-of-form T20I skipper Jaker Ali, insisting there is no problem with his batting. Jaker, who scored 32 runs at number four and played a part clinching the three-match T20I series with one game in hand, has looked a pale shadow of himself in recent times. Before this innings, Jaker had failed to reach double figures in his last five outings, drawing heavy criticism for his performance in the recently-concluded Asia Cup. “When you…
Sam Konstas made four and Kurtis Patterson eight as NSW slipped to 3-35 at the WACA Ground Incumbent Test opener Sam Konstas has endured a tough start to his Sheffield Shield campaign, falling for four on the opening day of NSW’s clash with Western Australia. The NSW opener, who turned 20 this week, lasted 25 deliveries after the Blues were sent in by WA skipper Sam Whiteman. Teammate Kurtis Patterson was dismissed for eight before rain stopped play on Saturday with NSW in strife at 3-35 at the WACA Ground.Just 25.1 overs were possible on day one in Perth as…
AFGHANISTAN VS BANGLADESH Shoriful Islam bowled a miserly spell of 1 for 13 in his 4 overs © Getty Bangladesh gained an unassailable 2-0 lead against Afghanistan, with a narrow two-wicket win, after chasing 148 in the second T20I to inflict Afghanistan’s fourth straight T20I defeat – out of which three of them have come from Bangladesh’s hands. Miserly spells from Shoriful Islam (1 for 13), Mohammad Saifuddin (0 for 22) and Nasum Ahmed (2 for 25) restricted the opposition to 147 for 5 before Bangladesh’s middle-order saw off a rampaging Azmatullah Omarzai (4 for 23) with the ball. 24…
Australia’s top-order has made it their mission to own the Powerplay and that approach is unlikely to change – although the method may differ slightly – as Australia’s World Cup campaign moves to unfamiliar conditions in Colombo. Australia’s World Cup squad got their first look at Colombo’s R Premadasa Stadium on Friday afternoon, 24 hours out from their second game against co-hosts Sri Lanka.While the Australians were airborne on their charter flight from Indore to Colombo on Thursday afternoon, the venue was hosting its first match of the tournament, which saw Pakistan grind their way to 129 all out from…
WOMEN’S WORLD CUP 2025 Sri Lanka have never beaten Australia © Getty Sri Lanka and Australia have faced each other 11 times in Women’s ODIs and 8 more times in the T20 format. On every single occasion, Australia have triumphed. The last time they met in ODIs was six years ago when Sri Lanka got absolutely thrashed in an away series in Brisbane. History is clearly against them! In an ideal world, Sri Lanka would have preferred a different opponent for their first ever World Cup match at home but the schedule hasn’t been kind for them in this tournament…
South Africa suffered a catastrophic batting collapse ©Getty We see close games that could be won or lost by either team. We see games won convincingly. We see downright one-sided games. We don’t often see, in games involving sides of the quality of South Africa and England, what happened in their women’s World Cup opener in Guwahati on Friday. The South Africans were bowled out for 69. Only twice in their 259 ODIs have they been dismissed for lower totals. Only once have they suffered a worse batting crash at a World Cup. Never have England rattled through them for…
WEST INDIES TOUR OF INDIA 2025 KL Rahul celebrated his century by sucking his fingers ©AFP With the new arrival in the family, KL Rahul seems to be in a happy space. He marked his rare home century with a playful finger-sucking baby gesture dedicated to his newborn daughter, Evaarah. “That was for my daughter,” he said at the end of the day’s play in Ahmedabad. It was not just the happy contented family-man vibes that Rahul exuded at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Friday, the second day of the first Test against West Indies; there was also a visible…
WEST INDIES TOUR OF INDIA, 2025 Dhruv Jurel celebrated his hundred with a special gesture, dedicating the milestone to the Indian Army, where his father once served © AFP Dhruv Jurel may have found a place in the Indian XI for the Test series against West Indies courtesy the injury that Rishabh Pant suffered during the England series. But the wicketkeeper-bat made the most of the opportunity by slamming his maiden Test century on the second day’s play in Ahmedabad on Friday. Even as Jurel has spent his share of time on the bench, he credited his behind-the scenes preparation…